The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region recently recognized the insolvency of NPF Pigment LLC, the successor of the Soviet chemical giant, and introduced bankruptcy proceedings.
Thus, the story of the Soviet chemical giant, whose territories on Oktyabrskaya Embankment were sold for development, ends.
Entrepreneur Kirill Kochev filed a claim for the insolvency of the enterprise in August 2021. According to the register of creditors approved by the court, two claims were made – the plaintiff and Global Invest LLC, the total amount of which is 6.3 million rubles.
The lion’s share of Pigment’s historical territory on Oktyabrskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg (a three-story mansion built in 1900-1902 for the owner of the Kinoveevsky ultramarine plant Georgy Vege) was bought in January 2018 by the Setl Group holding, owned by the destroyer of the architectural heritage of Maxim Shubarev. After the completion of the transaction, the amount of which was estimated at 4 billion rubles, LLC NPF Pigment, owned by Gennady Agafonov, had only an insignificant part of the group’s real estate.
Previously, KGIOP applied to law enforcement agencies with a demand to initiate a criminal case against Pigment under Art. 243.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the requirements for the preservation or use of objects of cultural heritage (monuments of history and culture) of the peoples of the Russian Federation, however, the police refused, not seeing evidence of damage to the object of cultural significance. Representatives of the committee did not agree with this and went to the prosecutor’s office, demanding to cancel the decision to refuse .
As a result, the prosecutor’s office canceled the decision to refuse to initiate a criminal case, and the material was sent to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg for an additional check.
The fact that the monument is being destroyed due to the Pigment’s six-year inactivity was recorded by representatives of the committee in 2015 and 2017. OAO NPF Pigment, in turn, undertook to carry out conservation work by November 2014, conduct a survey of the technical condition and submit the project for approval to KGIOP by August 2015, and carry out repair and restoration work by August 2017. However, the matter moved further than promises.
